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4 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, XOVE3IBER 3, 1907. SUSPECTED SPy TELLS HER STORY Etta McLean Does Not Believe Gordee Used Her as a Tool. ADMITS SHE LOVES HIM FtnogTapher Accused of Selling Government Secrets Admits She Haa Been Divorced Calls the Bribery Charge Ridiculous. CHICAGO. Ill.r Nov. J. (Special.) Etta McLean, th stenographer under arrest on a charge of stealing Government papers from the office of United States District Attorney Sims, Is a divorcee using her maiden name, according to the statement made by the young woman In the County Jail today. She also said she first met Alexander B. Gordee, also under arrest, in Boston a few years ago. but not until af ter she had been divorced. She refused to tell the name of her former husband and she declined also to reveal the present ad dross of her parents, who, she said, had moved from Boston. She refused to break the veil of mystery hanging over her past life". One interesting revelation made by the fair prisoner was that Gordee, since com ing to Chicago, had been employed as a private detective. "When asked If she thought she could have been made the tool of a detective to further his Work, she flushed quickly, thought a moment, and shook her head slowly. Beady to Shield Lover. The woman also showed a disposition to protect Gordee, with whom she said she was in love. She had heard that he would throw all the blame for the thefts on her shoulders, and said If that was true, she was prepared to suffer alone, but that she would not accuse him. With charac teristic deftness- she let It be understood, however, that she could tell a good deal about him. "My relations with Mr. Gordee before doming to Chicago have nothing to do with the case," said Miss McLean. "I admit that I loved htm. and,- if -he has turned against tne, as I have been told, I will have to stand the shame alone." Divorced Husband In Boston. Then the woman paused, as If hesitating whether to say anything more. "1 have been married," she continued, "but was divorced from my husband In Boston. It matters not what his name was. My maiden name was McLean and I use it. I came from a good old Scotch family, and- I am ashamed that I have dragged the name into such a mess. J met Mr. Gordee a long time after I had been divorced, and of course he had nothing to do with my family affairs. How She Got Into Scrape. "One evening I happened to mention to Mr. Gordee that I was handling the Walsh case, and that the Government was going to make, things lively for the ex-banker and some of his associates. He became interested and asked me if I knew whether or not Mr. Walsh was in custody. "Isn't it foolish on the face of tt to think that I would steal papers from Mr. Sims' office when he had just advanced me from $80 to $100 a month, and 1 had reason to believe that I would soon ba at the head of the list?" SOLD OUT TO STANDARD OIL tit a McLean Pouted Monojioly on Government's Plans. CHICAGO, Nov. 2.The Inter Ocean to day says: Secret Service operatives are working to determine to what extent Government secrets in recent cases of National Im portance have been sold by Miss Etta McLean and Alexander Gordee, who yes terday were held In $5000 "bonds to the grand Jury on charges of conspiracy and the theft of papers in the John R. Walsh case. Discovery of papers relating to the Standard Oil trial In the room of Miss McLean has led to the suspicion that she and. her confederate may have dis closed Government plans not only in the Walsh case, but in the cases against the Standard Oil, the Chicago & AKon Rail way and the School Book Combine. Miss McLean's position as stenog rapher in District Attorney Sims' office which she held singe April, gave her ample opportunity to obtain copies of the most valuable papers In all these cases. The fact that Gordee. her sweet heart, was able to live in Idleness, dining at expensive restaurants, for the last six months, has made It apparent he had some secret source of income. While the Government officials feel confident they have unearthed a far reaching conspiracy, they have yet to learn Its magnitude or to what extent Its operations have injured Government prosecutions. In the prosecution of the Standard Oil, the Alton and the Book Combine, it was apparent at every turn that the defendants knew In advance the Government's moves, no matter how se cretly planned. HEED BETTER CAR SERVICE GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE TO STEP INTO BREACH. The Difficulty Is Not to Get Enough Cars, but to Keep Them Mov ing Fast Enough. WASHINGTON. Nov. 2. (Special.) The insistent demand which shippers throughout the country are making for greater efficiency in railroad car service has made this problem one of the great est which the common carriers are try ing to solve. The importance of a car service which shall get the fullest possi ble use out of the equipment of the roads is paramount. It is contended by the railroads, and now generally conceded by the shippers, that no railroad could afford to pyvlde itself with sufficient equipment tolnwet the demands made upon It for cars -at all times. To do so would mean that the railroads would have tied up many mil lions of dollars in equipment which would remain Idle during less busy seasons. This fact makes it certain that, no mat ter how diligent the railroads may be In providing sufficient equipment and in building more lines, there will always be periods when car shortage will exist and when congestion of traffic cannot fall to occur. It is therefore recognized by railroads and -by shippers alike that the greatest hope of salvation lies in a more efficient car service. It seems absurd that a freight car, representing an Investment of from $600 to 11600, should not be able to move more than an average of 25 miles per day. with idle time taken into the reckoning. It would seem, for example, where such vast financial interests are Involved, that when it was discovered that there is a loss of nearly 40 per cent in time, money and energy in the great freight terminals of the country, some one would be able to supply a remedy. It would also seem, from the present condition of things, that Commissioner Clark's implied threat, recently given at a dinner of the Chicago Traffic Club, would have to be carried out and that the Government would have to Interfere in the operation of railroads. This inter ference, Mr. Clark said, should go to the extent, at least, of formulating sane and reasonable car service rules. . ( EXTENDS SYSTEM IN SOUTH Harrlman Buys Georgia Central With Outlet to Atlantic. NEW YORK, Nov. 2. According to the Times today. E. H. Harriman was the buyer of the Central of Georgia stock sold last week by Oakleigh Thorne and Mars den J. Perry, and he has plans for the road In connection with the Illinois Cen tral lines. The two roads connect at Bir mingham, Ala., and the possession of the Central of Georgia will give the Har riman lines another outlet to the Atlantic. A close associate of Mr. Harrlman when questioned regarding the purchase of the Central of Georgia by that capitalist re marked that Mr. Harriman had not been Idly watching recent events. The s Times savs further that in CELEBRATED THEIR s . .- j :c ;:: vW . -rtrMfrt-Jl1ilfi rtif aft' mV r.-V'irwm-"fi1titffi MB. AND MRS. THOMAS H. HOPKINS. Mr. -and Mrs. Thomas H. Hopkins celebrated their golden wedding Mon day. October 28, at their home. 981 East Madison street. Mr. Hopkins married Miss Eliza Day, October 28, J857. in Ontario. Canada. Both were born In Eng land. Twelve years ago they came to Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins have had born to them 12 children." They also have 12 grandchildren. Of their children now Mving Mrs. W. P. Snook, Mrs. Charles McGIll, Mrs. Annie C. praden and Al bert Hopkins live in Portland; George and Harry Hopkins at West Superior. Wis., and Thomas Hopkins at Woodstock, Ontario. the recent annual report of the Il linois Central November 1 was fixed as the date on which its lines to Birmingham were to be completed and that with that date comes the news that Mr. Harrlman's Influence in Southern ter ritory is to be extended by taking him eastward to the seaboard at Savannah and westward by way of Chattanooga and Birmingham and Montgomery. It is known that Messrs. Thorne and Perry paid about $3,600,000 for the $3,000,000 of Central of Georgia stock which they pur chased last Summer at the Richmond Terminal reorganization committee, and It is presumed in the financial district, the paper says,' that the Harriman inter ests took over the road at not far from the above-named fisure. STORM DESTROYS TOWN SIXTEEN PERSON'S DROWNED IN LOWER CALIFORNIA. San. Jose del Cabo. Demolished by Wind and Cloudburst Whole Population Destitute. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2. Reports of great damage and loss of life at San Jose del Cabo, in Lower California, on October 14, caused by a cloudburst, were confirmed by Captain Paulsen and passen gers on the steamer Curacao, which ar rived here from Mazatlan. yesterday. Sixteen persons are said to have been drowned by the torrential downpour and more than 50 houses washed away. The rain was preceded by a hurricane, which blew with great fury for upward of 12 hours. Small craft In the harbor were sunk and a number of larger vessels badly damaged. As the deluge struck the town the- peo ple were caught up and those in the main path of the stream had no chance of es cape. Several were carried out to sea. Some who .escaped the flood were killed by being crushed by flying portions of buildings. Two new wireless telegraph stations were completely destroyed. Orange and lemon groves in the vicinity were ruined, and the inhabitants are said to be practically destitute. Not a single relic of any of the houses which were on the hillside remains. MOVE FOR LOWER PRICES Colorado Takes Steps Against Com panies in Coal Combination. DENVER, Nov. 2. Suit to enjoin the retail coal dealers' combination from continuing its present high scale of prices and to force its dissolution was died In the Denver District Court today by Attorney-General W. H.. Dickson. Eighty coal companies, including the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, one of the largest concerns in the West, are named as de fendants In the action. In his complaint Attorney-General Dick son declares that the coal dealers have formed a combination to control the sale of coal In the state and have raised the price of coal and maintained it at a high and exorbitant scale. It is further alleged that the production of coal has been curtailed until it is less than the ac tual needs of consumers. The plea for an injunction is based upon the common law, there being no anti-trust law In this state. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 2. Sailed Shin Wm. P. Fry. tor New York. Arrived Bark Jean BarC French, from Hull and Lonflon. Sailed Steamer Costa Rica, for Portland; steamer Okanogan, for Gamble; bark Caron dalet, for Gamble; steamer, Paramita. for Portland;- steamer Pulton. for Grays Harbor; iteairar Newburg, Grays " Harbor; steamer Roanoke. Astoria; eteamer Yellow stone, Astoria. Arrived Steamer Acme, WII lapa; uteamer Dlhl, Seattle; steamer Bow head, Unalaska. T Ml II U I GIRL HE WANTS Joseph W. Lee, Minister to Guatemala, Wanted by Too Many Girls. CHARGES WHILE- ABSENT r. ... Home on Sick Leave, Finds That Countess to Whom He Is at One Time Engaged Refuses to Give Him Up to Another. WASHINGTON. Nov. 2. (Special.) Joseph W. Lee. formerly ofthe Rough Riders, now American minister to Guatemala, whose engagement to Miss Helen Squlers. youngest daughter of Herbert G. Squlers, American Minister to Panama, was recently announced, has returned to Washington on sick GOLDEN WEDDING T 1 . ':. ..-' . .w. . 'ill- fi-'-'.- :' leave to find that certain Americans in Guatemala have made-charges affect ing his service at the Central American capital. At the same time Cpuntess Festetlcs, of New York, the divorced wife of Count Rudolph Festetlcs, an Austrian nobleman, who was formerly Miss Ella Haggin, J. B. Haggin's granddaugh ter, is reported to have cabled to Min ister Sauiers that Lee was first en gaged to her and she had not and will not release him. Denies AH Charges. This has not contributed to Lee's peace of mind, already disturbed by his broken health, but he states that the charsres against him ttrp irnfrnnrl.rl fund no tie exists between himself and Countess Festetlcs, the only under standing which ever existed having been severed by mutual consent months ago. It is understood that there has been no change in his engagement to Miss Squiers. It is learned at the State Depart ment that the question of Lee's return to Guatemala hinges only upon his health. He is now at his home near Knoxvllle, Md. An attack of fever, from which he suffered for nearly a year in Guatemala, is complicated with Injuries sustained in Panama. He was leading a pet bulldog in a hotel at Panama when it bolted after a cat and Lee was dragged downstairs and seri ously injured. Thinks Countess Loyal. Today, when asked about the action of Countess Festetlcs, Lee was reluc tant to discuss the matter. "Countess Festetlcs Is an old friend of mine and of my family," he said. "She Is honored and respected .by. all. of us. Having known her for more than eight years, we naturally drifted close together as friends. Owing to circum stances, however, we agreed to disagree before it was too late. When I last saw her, last November, we understood each other perfectly. I am a Catholic and she understood and agreed that she could not marry a Catholic, as her husband was still living. Countess Festetlcs is a most estimable Woman. I shall always believe that anything she may do to injure me will be in spired by someone else and not by herself." ALASKANS FOR OFFICES Senator Plies Not" Candidate to Succeed Judge Wlckershain. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Nov. 2. Senator Piles arrived-In Washington last night and paid his re spects to the President today. Later he had a conference with Secretary Metcalf and urged him to recommend an in creased appropriation for the Puget Sound drydock. The Secretary assured him he had already formulated such a recommendation. Mr. Piles said he was not a candidate to succeed Judge Wickersham in Alaska and no Washington men had applied to him for endorsement. He is on record as favoring Alaskans' for Alaska offi ces. He wants residents of ' Stevens County consulted before any part of the Spo kane Indian Reservation is converted into forest reserve and has taken this matter up with the forest service. Creel to Return as Ambassador. EL PASO, Nov. 2. Enrique Creel, ambassador from Mexico to the United States and new GovernoV of Chihuahua, has been ordered by President Diaz to proceed at once to Washington and at tend the conference of South and Cen tral American republics. It is believed he will- remain at Washington as Am bassador, at least throught the Winter. Of at! the boy workers In London, ne-n-a-boyB are th healthiest, barbers' boys tha most unhealthy a tribue to tha open-air MflV MARRY - 1. " I N "-n? n Ji i Copyright 1907 by Hart Governor of Kansas Yearns to Fill Long's Seat. MAKES MACHINE WORRY People Want Primary Vote on Sen ator, Which Would Mean Hoch's v Election Over Long and Stubbs. the Square-dealer: TOPEKA, Kas., Nov. 2. It Is cer tain that Governor Hoch will be a candidate for United States Senator to succeed Senator Chester I. Long. The Senatorial election will take place one year from next January. Mr. Hoch Is serving his second term,' which will expire at that time, and his growing strength with the people is disturbing Mr. Long and the ma chine element that Is backing him. State politicians who visit Topeka say that Mr. Hoch's candidacy would be welcomed' by a very large element of the Republican party, which is anxious to retire Mr. Ld'ng and which does not want Superintendent W. R. Stubbs, the candidate of the "square dealers." The people of Kansas are over whelmingly for a state-wide primary election next year to name a United States Senator. Mr. Hoch's friends believe he can get in between the two Republican machines in Kansas and win the Senatorshlp. With a primary law, it Is believed that the Governor would easily defeat Mr. Long and Mr. Stubbs In securing the popular vote for United States Senator. Such a vote would mean In structions to the members of the Leg islature. Miss Nethersole in "The Awakening'-' and "Sapho" feT ARTHUR A. GREENE. The concluding performance of the great English actress who has been "in . our midst" for an all too short engagement, gave a representative audience at the Heilig last night an opportunity to judge of the merits of her new play, "The Awakening," which was one of the most enthusiastically received of her offerings in Paris last Summer. Whether the ma jority of local opinion concerning it Is one of approval 'or not, can only be in ferred from the applause of the audience, and what portion of that applause was for the star and what portion for-' the drama itself Is at this time largely a matter of speculation. "The Awakening" is the first piece in which we have seen Miss Nethersole por tray a weak woman, a woman who Is weak without being a sinner, for the matron with a deserving husband and a beautiful young daughter, who is the cen tral figure In the piece, pauses on the brink and is saved from taking the plunge through maternal affection and a certain regard for the man to whom she . I 'if f r ' j. j-v 5 4 FOR SENATOR When the blood becomes infected with unhealthy humors the effect is Bhown on the skin in the form of pimples, rashes, eruptions, or some other type of skin disease. 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S S cures Eczema, Tetter, Acne, Salt Rheum, pimples, boils, rashes, and all other skin affections and diseases, because it purifies the blood and removes the humors which are responsible for the trouble. Book on Skin Diseases and any medical advice desired sent free to all who write JSESWUTlPEQmQ CO.t ATLAXTAGJL R R. ., at Schaffner & Marx has been married for long years. She Is merely one of the victims of a union loveless in its Inception on her dwn part, while on her husband's part his wife and family come second after ambition. This particular sort of marriage forms one of the every-day tragedies of life. It has become so common as to excite little com ment. We accept it as a matter of course until one day the wife it is almost in variably the heart-hungry wife meets the "other man"and the blighting of lives and the public scandal' arouse us to an understanding that something which could never have been right is all wrong. In the play in question the wife is Hear ing middle age. Her daughter Is old enough to be considering marriage and her husband is at the zenith of a brilliant political career. The wife meets a man much her Junior and almost without their realizing it, an attachment springs up which grows into a consuming passion the one for the other. It matters but little that Hie woman In the case Is the wife of a man of distinction and the lover a prince, as in "The Awakening." The in cident might concern people In aiy walk of life. The ugly records of divorce courts and the blotters at police headquarters are stained with the histories of such cases. The story is eminently a human one: a commonplace human one. In Miss Nethersole's play the frail wife Is only saved from herself through a political plot which requires that the heir to the principality keep free from en tanglements. The prlncllng and she are separated by' craft and the mother re turns, to her home believing that her lover has been assassinated. Here the In fluence of her devoted husband and pure, unspoiled daughter work upon her so ef fectually that when the lover returns as from the dead to renew the amour she is strong enough to resist his plead ing and choose the better way, the way of duty which' we are led to believe is ultimately to become the way of hap piness. In this play for the first time we see Miss Nethersole playing a good woman: good as society gauges them." But it is the first time her women have been weak. Sapho. bad we may grant for the sake of argument, was. however, no weakling. She was Infinitely stronger In the final analysis than the man In the case. It Is so with her Carmen, vicious and wholly evil, perhaps, but lever weak, and so with Mrs. Tanquery and the others. The wife of the French statesman was weak and onlv in the last few minutes of the progress of the play does she find her womanhood. It is something of a novelty and I'm not v convinced, for one, that "The Awakening" is a good vehicle for the superb actress. Judged superficially, there is not enough Olga Nethersole in it, While her genius dominates it insofar as the author will permit, there is so small portion of the action of the piece in which Miss Nethersole is on the stage that it does not maintain itself. Her present supporting company, for instance. is quite as good as necessary for the other plays in her repertoire but they do not suffice to seize the interest and hold it. ' The second act, for instance, the one in which a plot is successfully carried out to take her lover away from her at their place 01 renaevouz, is meioaramic oeyona the license of art. True. Miss Nether sole's despairing exit at its close is one of her best, efforts, but it is not sur flcient to atone for the rest of the act which is four parts mock-heroics. The last 10 minutes of the play is worth all that has gone before and the parting scene between Miss Nethersole and Frank Mills, who plays the prince ly lover, is a model of repressed acting. Few such splendid scenes have ever been reen on the English-speaking stage. After all, however, the play as a whole does not seem to be the thing. The few fine touches are ot sufficient; there are too many deserts between. Testerday afternoon Miss Nethersole gave "Sapho" at her very best, and a MEM0ES BI00B HUMOUS AINCOAT When you buy a raincoat you want: all wool fabrics; rainproof guaranteed; style as well as general utility; tailoring that lasts. When you buy a Hart, Schaff ner( & Majcx raincoat you get ' all of that, and at the right price. RAINCOATS, SUITS OVERCOATS $18,00 to $40.00 SAM'L ROSENBLATT & GO. CORNER THIRD AND MORRISON large matinee audience was greatly moved by It. Her brilliant playing of Fanny LeGrand proved to be irresist ible, as It always is. The great actress left in her private car for the North after the perform ance last night, and her company will follow this morning. Her visit has been one of the really important events of the theatrical season and Portland theatergoers will look forward to her next engagement with an eagerness which should be flattering to Miss Nethersole. PLAN FOR TRAIN FERRY Scheme to Take Cars Across the Channel on Boats. LONDON, Oct. 26. (Special.) David Lloyd-George, the President of the Board of Trade, has given his warm approval to. the proposal for a Channel ferry between Calais and Dover. The Idea, which has been before the public for some time. is. briefly, to run the trains at both ports on to huge floating structures somewhat similar In general design to those used for the same purpose in America. Mr. Lloyd-George said that the two great English political parties were united In emphatic opposition to any project for tunneling the Channel one objection be ing the possibility of Its- use by an In vading army but that objections raised against a tunnel did not hold good -in re gard to a ferry, and he felt sure that the traveling public would welcome the plan when the promoters were able to persuade the people that tt was safe. "That,-' added the President of the Board of Trade, "will probably take some time, for this is a very conservative coun try. 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